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name	Brian Rushton
member for	11 years
seen	Apr 27 '15 at 13:26
website	sites.google.com/site/rushtonresearch/home
location	Philadelphia, PA

I'm at Temple University as a postdoc, studying geometry and topology. I support research for congenital muscular dystrophy (curecmd.org) and I'm a Mormon.

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